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(Epub Download) Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds(The MIT Press) Download and Read online(Epub Download)Frankenstein:Annotated forScientists, Engineers,and Creators of AllKinds (The MIT Press)Download and ReadonlineDescription[The editors's] expertise speaks to Frankenstein's enduring message about existential stakes â€•and the potentially alarming societal consequences likely to devolve from the unfettered march ofscience and technology. Concerns about unintended consequences were urgent at the onset ofthe Industrial Revolution and the Nuclear Age, and they are, if anything, more urgent now.â€•LosAngeles Review of BooksThe critical essays accompanying the text are eclectic, crossdisciplinary,and incisive....authoritative, yet accessible, and firmly situates both Shelley and hernovel in relation to our contemporary tech-oriented age.â€•Lawfare Read more This new,remarkable annotated edition of Frankenstein with its accompanying essays brings the 'modernPrometheus' flawlessly into our century in a manner sure to inspire scientists and nonscientists ina conversation that Shelley herself might not have foreseen but surely would have encouraged.â€•Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor, founding head of theDivision of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, New York UniversityThis wonderful new edition isa happy addition to the critical literature examining the meaning of the tale for our twenty-firstcenturycommitments to heroic science, engineering, and technology.â€•Rachelle D. Hollander, Director, Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, National Academy of EngineeringThePromethean tale of Frankenstein is a rich source of questions about the price that scientists andthe public pay for knowledge.Â This annotated edition rescues the classic allegory from popularculture's caricature and presents it with a framework for exploring the questions raised.Â Amongthe many questions, perhaps the most important is, when scientists either from amoral arroganceor negligent lack of foresight present a discovery society is not prepared to deal withâ€•nuclearweapons, engineered gene lines, climate modificationâ€•what is the scientists' responsibility goingforward?Â Is it merely to watch in horror as the knowledge is unleashed on society?â€•Rush D.Holt, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; ExecutivePublisher, Science Family of Journals Read more See all Editorial Reviews

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